Word: worm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Worm infestations are also a problem for individuals who go barefoot or eat food that is not thoroughly cooked. Many worms can thrive in an individual's intestinal tract and significantly limit that person's nutritional intake...
...become one of the greatest enterprises of the 21st century. "I see it as inevitable," says evolutionary biologist Michael Rose, who breeds strains of long-lived flies in his laboratory at the University of California at Irvine. "I'm confident that Benzer's work--and the worm people's and maybe my work--will someday be used by a bunch of avaricious corporations who'll make billions of dollars a la Microsoft by giving people what they've always wanted...
...message can only be construed as dangerous: Drink yourselves into oblivion, kiddos. Lose your mind, man. Free your soul. The rest will follow. Or maybe as a warning: To those who want to retain full capacities, stay away from the worm...
...leads yet as to who might have created the Worm.Explore.Zip virus, but the betting here is that he?s a disgruntled 9-to-5er. After nearly dropping off the charts this weekend, the worm that burns roared back for the workweek, spreading like wildfire over office networks, infecting everyone connected even if only one schnook makes a wrong click. "All it takes is one person to make that mistake," says TIME technology writer Chris Taylor, "and everybody else loses all their Word, Excel and PowerPoint files ?- irretrievably...
...mail attachment, maybe even with the name of someone you know on it. "I received your e-mail, and I shall reply ASAP," the ExploreZip message reads. "Till then, take a look at the zipped docs." Do NOT take a look at the "zipped docs." The worm will be out of the can and munching on everything from your Outlook e-mail program to your big PowerPoint presentation before you can say, "Hmm. I never asked for any ?zipped docs.?" Beware. And for gosh sakes, this is the Internet age. Use a little common sense...